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from the something awful forums:
First, let’s start with the core information of an article. it’s about the prospects of VAT for the US:
After Obama adviser Paul Volcker recently raised the prospect of a value-added tax, or VAT, the Senate voted 85-13 last week for a nonbinding “sense of the Senate” resolution that calls the such [...]

My teacher said that the 60s were the “last gasp of cultural criticism” before we were overwhelmed by the tidal wave of capitalist consumerism. But, I don’t know that we were suddenly overwhelmed by materialism; market capitalism was strengthened, not weakened, by the cultural critiques and studies of the 60s.
Without an understanding of what makes [...]